The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS) (formerly known as the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences) is a graduate college of

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that was founded in 1952 as an academic partnership between two major medical institutions in

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: the

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and the Sloan Kettering Institute. Cornell is involved in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program with

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and the Sloan Kettering Institute; each of these three institutions is part of a large biomedical center extending along York Avenue between 65th and 72nd Streets on the

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Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS) partners with neighboring institutions along York Avenue, also known as the “corridor of science” in New York City. Such partnerships with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,

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, the

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and

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offer specialized learning opportunities. WCGS offers a variety of programs at both the Masters and Doctoral levels. As a partnership between the Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, WCGS offers seven PhD programs as well as four distinct Masters programs. Additionally, the school offers two Tri-Institutional PhDs, a Tri-Institutional MD/PhD and the opportunity for students to participate in an Accelerated PhD/MBA program. PhD Programs: * Biochemistry and Structural Biology * Molecular Biology * Cell and Developmental Biology * Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis * Pharmacology * Neuroscience * Physiology Biophysics and Systems Biology Tri-Institutional PhD Programs * Chemical Biology * Computational Biology and Medicine * Tri-I MD / PhD Program

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